To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen
Запирать дверь конюшни, после того как лошадь уже украдена.
После драки кулаками не машут. После пожара да за водой.
Другие пословицы:
- It is a good horse that never stumbles
- When the fox preaches, take care of your geese
- To cook a hare before catching him
- One scabby sheep will mar a whole flock
- If wishes were horses, beggars might ride
- The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws
- It is a poor mouse that has only one hole
- When pigs fly
- Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark
- Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free
- To kill two birds with one stone
- Dogs that put up many hares kill none
- It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait
- Don't sell the bear's skin before you've caught it
- To put (set) the cart before the horse